Allen Ginsberg Best Poems - April 2024

Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000 copies now in print."Howl was Allen's metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard."—Michael McClure"It is th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872860175
• ASIN: 0872860175
• ISBN: 0872860175
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept journals his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. These first journals detail the inner thoughts of the awkward boy from Paterson, New Jersey, who would become the major poet and spokesperson of the literary phenomenon called the Beat Generation. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice covers the most important and formative years of Ginsberg's storied life. It was during these years that he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures. Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306814625
• ASIN: 0306814625
• ISBN: 0306814625
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem “Howl,” and Jack Kerouac’s seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present the history of Beat Literature in his own inimitable way. Compiled and edited by renowned Beat scholar Bill Morgan, and with an introduction by Anne Waldman, The Best Minds of My Generation presents ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802126499
• ASIN: 0802126499
• ISBN: 0802126499
• Brand: GROVE
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, “in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . .” In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my sel... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872860191
• ASIN: 0872860191
• ISBN: 0872860191
• Brand: Brand: City Lights Publishers
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection: Booklet and CD

A collection of poems by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th centuryUpon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation. Literature, art, sex, love, family, politics; nothing would ever be the same. The Beat Generation was born through Ginsberg and his friends.This collection of more than two dozen poems in verse and song is the best of the best, celebrating someone who was of his time, ahead of his time, and whose legacy will transcend time.Included are:Howl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060734159
• ASIN: 0060734159
• ISBN: 0060734159
• Manufacturer: Caedmon

Kaddish and Other Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition (The Pocket Series)

Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish," a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.Allen Ginsberg, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking poems.Bill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Alle... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872865118
• ASIN: 0872865118
• ISBN: 0872865118
• Brand: City Lights Books
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First ... (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a prophetic masterpiece—an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process—as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes, an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques, and a veritable social history of the 1950s.

• ASIN: 0061137456
• ASIN: 0061137456
• ISBN: 0061137456
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995

Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience of the nation. His personal essays on Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and others, give us compelling portraits of his fellow artists. And his views on poetry, free speech, Buddhism, and the Beats reflect the concerns of the postwar American culture he helped shape.Provocative, playful, eloquent, and of the moment, these essays offer a social history of modern America that remind us of the events and issues that preoccupied the minds of a natio... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060930810
• ASIN: 0060930810
• ISBN: 0060930810
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Illuminated Poems

Street-smart, hip urban graphics accompany a collection of some fifty poems that span the poet's creative evolution from 1948 to the present, including the complete text of "Howl," as well as four never-before-anthologized works. IP.

• ASIN: 1568580452
• ASIN: 1568580452
• ISBN: 1568580452
• Brand: Brand: Four Walls Eight Windows
• Manufacturer: Four Walls Eight Windows

Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996

The interviews collected in Spontaneous Mind, chronologically arranged and in some cases previously unpublished, were conducted throughout Allen Ginsberg's long career. Always a candid and engaging subject, Ginsberg considered the interview an art form, as well as an opportunity to get his message across to many people, which, as a student of Eastern religions, he believed was his spiritual obligation. In these interviews, dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s, Ginsberg speaks frankly about his life, his work, and the events of his time.Ginsberg's progressive and controversial views on p... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060192933
• ASIN: 0060192933
• ISBN: 9780060192938
• Manufacturer: Harper

Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet

A new preface by the author updates this reissue of a seminal biography of the counter culture icon, by a luminary of the 1960s underground Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely detailed and fascinating account of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary poets.

• ASIN: 0753522527
• ASIN: 0753522527
• ISBN: 0753522527
• Brand: Virgin Books
• Manufacturer: Virgin Books

Planet News: 1961-1967 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

Planet News collecting seven years’ Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges till next breakthrough, comedown Poem at heart & soul last days in Asia The Change 1963; tenement doldrums & police-state paranoia in Manhattan then half year behind Socialist Curtain climaxed as Kral Majales May King Prague 1965, same years’ erotic gregariousness writ as Who Be Kind To for International Poetry Incarnation Albert Hall London; next ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0872860205
• ASIN: 0872860205
• ISBN: 9780872860209
• Brand: Brand: Consortium Book Sales Dist
• Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams, reflections, and diary notes that intimately illuminate Ginsberg's actual travels and his mental journeys. They reveal a remarkable and fascinating life: conversations with William Carlos Williams; drug experiences; a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas; stays in Mexico, San Francisco, and New York; ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802133479
• ASIN: 0802133479
• ISBN: 9780802133472
• Brand: Brand: Grove Press
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Howl: A Graphic Novel

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century.  Now a major motion picture, starring James Franco, Howl was directed by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, who hired Eric Drooker to animate the poem. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem--stanza by stanza--with full color animation art Drooker designed for the film. [Printed on recycled paper with Soy Ink, this luxury art bo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062015176
• ASIN: 0062015176
• ISBN: 0062015176
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997

Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. This singular volume of final poems commemorated the anniversary of Ginsberg's death, and includes the verses he wrote in the years shortly before... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060930837
• ASIN: 0060930837
• ISBN: 0060930837
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales & Poems

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan

• UPC: 2275198
• Rating: 4.276

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Twenty-one short stories plus thirty-four narrative and lyric

• UPC: 5436164
• Rating: 3.5

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

A complete collection of the writings of Poe, including his mysteries, fantasies, satires, and

• UPC: 461591
• Rating: 4.267

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems (the Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe)

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion."-Edgar Allan Poe. Containing such famous works as "The Raven," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee," and "To Helen," this complete collection of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

• UPC: 15744871
• Rating: 3.333

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems - eBook

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems features all of Edgar Allan Poe's classic fiction. It includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and other tales of madness and mania; the revenge classics "The Cask

• UPC: 749397819
• Rating: 4.222

Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - eBook

Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Classics

• UPC: 426545041
• Rating: 3.0

Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe : Stories & Poems

Retold with illustrations by artist David Plunkert, this high-end paperback edition of Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allen Poe will beguile your sad soul into smiling once again. Well-known, Baltimore based artist David Plunkert will take you

• UPC: 56101851

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems (Illustrated) - eBook

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of the Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features 157 Poe works, including all of his short stories and poems.69 Tales, including:• The Tell-Tale Heart• The Murders

• UPC: 737975945
• Rating: 4.222

The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Poems of Later Life Dedication Preface The Raven The Bells Ulalume To Helen Annabel Lee A Valentine An Enigma To My Mother For Annie To F-- To Frances S. Osgood Eldorado Eulalie A Dream Within

• UPC: 46422130
• Rating: 3.857

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career : The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997

The personal correspondence between two of the 20th century's most influential literary rebels is presented for the first time in an intimate collection that reveals the true nature of their lifelong friendship and creative relationship

• UPC: 42082326
• Rating: 2.0

Howl Allen Ginsberg 1" Badge Rock Poetry I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation

• UPC: 192913666994
• Category: Novelty/Message Badges
• Price: 0 GBP